Download or read book Chambers's Miscellany, Vol. 4 written by William Chambers and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-03 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chambers's Miscellany, Vol. 4: Of Instructive Entertaining Tracts This young king being incapable of ruling in his own person, his government in France was conducted by the Dukes of Bedford and Gloucester. These noblemen had a difficult part to act; for Charles, the Dauphin, or son of the late king of France, had a party in the state who favoured his preferable claims to the throne and, besides, the civil broils among the noblesse and peasantry kept everything unsettled. The English power, fortified by the Duke of Burgundy, was, however, supreme. All the towns and forts were garrisoned with English soldiers; and it is not unlikely that, with prudent management, and with a popular monarch, France would have irrevocably become a province of England. Such a misfortune for both countries was prevented in a most singular manner by the intrepidity Of a peasant-girl; and it is the story Of this girl that we now propose to tell, and we tell it to the shame of the English nation - the shame of bigotry - the shame of having cruelly maltreated an innocent and patriotic maiden. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.